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The Promotion Paradox: Why Pixel-Perfect Designers Often Hit Career Ceilings!

You still don’t know why you were passed along when the time for a promotion came?

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Do you remember the interview time? When you were hired at this company where you are working at? What did you sell to them that they hired you? Was it a pixel perfect design? Was it your execution skills? Or was it the personality that you sold?

The truth is, it can be anything. Because interviews are often far from the real-life work that you are exposed to, once you join any company.

Once you’re working on the real projects, you’ll encounter problems that are wildly different from the ones that were given to you in your assignment or case study task during hiring.

Craft-mastery might have gotten you hired but it won’t get you prompted, here’s why —

The Pixel-Perfect Trap

You’re obsessed with visual details and UIs. A padding of 9 pixels doesn’t allow you to sleep at night. You’re awake in your bed thinking about a decimal point in spacing — how did that crime even occur?

You’re a master when it comes to tools and execution, and you take pride in that. Your UIs look sleek and…